Manuel dos Reis Machado famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas . . . Chop your own path. Get off the car track.
To Lawren Harris art was almost a mission. He believed that a country which ignored the arts left no record of itself worth preserving.
Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving.
In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family.
You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.
Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.
To understand your fear is the beginning of really seeing.
Remember... you are expressing the technique, not doing the technique.
Boards don't hit back.
When you really get technique... there is no strength that will stop you.

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